Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networks

by Theresa M. Senft

This book is a critical and ethnographic study of camgirls: women who broadcast themselves over the web for the general public while trying to cultivate a measure of celebrity in the process. The book's over-arching question is, What does it mean for feminists to speak about the personal as political in a networked society that encourages women to 'represent' through confession, celebrity, and sexual display, but punishes too much visibility with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820456942
• ISBN13: 9780820456942
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"